The document discusses tools that can promote transparency in government, including publishing information online in a structured, searchable way through feeds and as open data. It notes transparency tools like data visualization, collaborative organization through tagging and voting, and crowdsourcing can increase accountability, oversight, participation and trust by making information more accessible and useful to the public.

1. Tools for Transparency

2. SECRECY TRANSPARENCY
 Lack of Accountability  Participation
 Corruption  Oversight
 Waste  Feedback
 Cynicism  Trust

3.  Only partially available online
 Formatted as web page or PDF
 Hard to search
 Can’t subscribe
 Can’t visualize
 Can’t re-use

4. Publishing Structured Data Visualization
Feeds • Makes it easy to find new
• Ability to subscribe to patterns.
interesting data
• Data streams can be ‘mashed’
in new ways.
Collaborative Crowdsourcing
Organization • Combines skills and input of
• Tagging, Voting large numbers of people